"Mae West Lips Sofa The Mae West Lips Sofa is a surrealist sculpture in the form of a sofa by Salvador Dalí. The light red, 86.5 x 183 x 81.5 cm (34 x 72 x 32 in) sized seating furniture made of wood and satin was shaped in 1937 after the lips of actress Mae West, whom Dalí apparently found fascinating. Dalí never intended for the sofa to serve a functional use. He also claimed that he partly based the design of the sofa on a pile of rocks near Cadaqués and Portlligat, where he stayed for many years with"
"you a damn thing."" Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall (, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, ""in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures"". Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in ""To Have and Have"
"of Fame at 1624 Vine Street in Hollywood. Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her ""smoky voice"" and being ""the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s"". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of ""The Skin of Our Teeth"", she emerged in such films as ""The Strange Love of Martha Ivers"" (1946), ""Dead Reckoning"" (1947), ""Desert Fury"" (1947), and ""Too Late for Tears"" (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady"
"Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall (, born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, ""in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures"". Bacall began her career as a model before making her film debut as a leading lady in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). She continued"
"Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her ""smoky voice"" and being ""the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s"". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of ""The Skin of Our Teeth"", she emerged in such films as ""The Strange Love of Martha Ivers"" (1946), ""Dead Reckoning"" (1947), ""Desert Fury"" (1947), and ""Too Late for Tears"" (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage"
"the surrealists is that I am a surrealist"". Salvador Dalí has been cited as a major inspiration by many modern artists, such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and most other modern surrealists. Salvador Dalí's manic expression and famous moustache have made him something of a cultural icon for the bizarre and surreal. He has been portrayed on film by Robert Pattinson in ""Little Ashes"" (2008), and by Adrien Brody in ""Midnight in Paris"" (2011). He was also parodied in a series of painting skits on ""Captain Kangaroo"" as ""Salvador Silly"" (played by Cosmo Allegretti) and in a ""Sesame Street"" muppet"
"suspecting its mocking aspect. One of Dalí's few possible bits of open disobedience was his continued praise of Federico García Lorca even in the years when Lorca's works were banned. Dalí, a colorful and imposing presence with his ever–present long cape, walking stick, haughty expression, and upturned waxed moustache, was famous for having said that ""every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí"". In the 1960s, he gave the actress Mia Farrow a dead mouse in a bottle, hand-painted, which her mother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, demanded be removed from her house. Dali's religious views"
"the multi-ethnic women of Hollywood. The gazebo is a stainless steel stylized Art Deco lattice structure. The roof is an arched square supporting a circular dome, which is topped by a central obelisk with descending neon block letters spelling ""Hollywood"" on each of its four sides. Atop the obelisk is a small gilded weathervane-style sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in her iconic billowing skirt pose from ""The Seven Year Itch"". The domed structure is held aloft by four caryatids sculpted by Harl West to represent the African-American actress Dorothy Dandridge, Asian-American actress Anna May Wong, Mexican actress Dolores del Río, and"
"industry as a whole. Recent examples include Sophia Vergara's character on Modern Family, but examples date back to the 1920s and 1930s with, ""Dolores del Río playing the exotic and passionate lover of the 1920s, and Carmen Miranda playing sexy and bombshell characters in the 1930s and 1940s"". Vergara portrays Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on Modern Family, a ""trophy wife"" often seen in provocative clothing and high heeled shoes. She often has trouble pronouncing English words and speaks with a heavy accent. Among the contemporary depictions accused of promoting the ""Latina bombshell"" include Iris Chacón's image, Naya Rivera in Glee, and Shakira"
"short films starring herself, such as ""A Girl and Her Banana"", are available. It also provides contemporary topless and nude photos and her outspoken political views. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2005, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. Mamie Van Doren Mamie Van Doren (born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol who is known for being one of the first actresses to recreate the look of Marilyn Monroe. Van Doren is"
"hotel, billed as ""The Satin Doll""), Jimmy Durante, Dean Martin, Pat Cooper, Shirley MacLaine, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Shecky Greene, Martin and Lewis, Danny Thomas, Bobby Darin, Ethel Merman, Rich Little, Louis Armstrong, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nat King Cole, Robert Merrill, Wayne Newton, Red Skelton, and ""The Copa Girls"". Hollywood celebrities such as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, Lucille Ball and Rosalind Russell were often photographed enjoying the headline acts. A number of notable albums were recorded in the Copa Room. Among them are Dean Martin's ""Live At The Sands - An Evening of"
"Mona Lisa Smile Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The title is a reference to the ""Mona Lisa"", the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance, the highest ever earned by"
"Saaphyri Windsor Saaphyri Windsor (also known as Wanda Scott) is an American reality television contestant, hairstylist, and actress. Windsor is best known for appearing on ""Flavor of Love 2"" and winning """". After the show, Windsor launched a unisex lip balm called ""Saaphyri's Lip Chap"" which stemmed from Saaphyri offering H-Town ""lip chap"" after their fight on ""Flavor of Love 2"". In 2006, Saaphyri participated in the second season of Flavor of Love. Shortly after entering the house, Saaphyri and H-Town were involved in an altercation when Saaphryi felt H-Town stole the bed Saaphyri had claimed for herself. Flavor Flav"
"stars in the world. Marlene Dietrich said of del Río,Dolores del Río was the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in Hollywood. George Bernard Shaw once said,The two most beautiful things in the world are the Taj Mahal and Dolores del Río. Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli said,I have seen many beautiful women in here, but none as complete as Dolores del Río! Diego Rivera said,The most beautiful, the most gorgeous of the west, east, north and south. I'm in love with her as 40 million Mexicans and 120 million Americans that can't be wrong. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes said,Garbo"
"Dora Doll Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a German-born French actress. One of her first screen appearances was as Juliette in Henri-Georges Clouzot's ""Manon"" (1949). She appeared as Lola in Jacques Becker's ""Touchez pas au grisbi"" (1954) and as Genisse in Jean Renoir's ""French Cancan"" (1955). In 1976 she appeared on television in the series ""Hôtel Baltimore"" in the role of Suzy. In 1977, she appeared in Fred Zinnemann's ""Julia"" as the woman passenger accompanying Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) when Lily smuggled $50,000 through Nazi Germany for her friend Julia (Vanessa"
"Connie Sawyer Connie Sawyer (born Rosie Cohen; November 27, 1912 – January 21, 2018) was an American stage, film, and television actress, affectionately nicknamed ""The Clown Princess of Comedy"". She had over 140 film and television credits to her name, but was best known for her appearances in ""Pineapple Express, Dumb and Dumber"", and ""When Harry Met Sally..."". At the time of her death, she was the oldest working actress in Hollywood and oldest member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Connie Sawyer was born on November 27, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado,"
"real life. Nancy Drexel Nancy Drexel (April 6, 1910 – November 19, 1989) was an American film actress of the late silent and early sound era. She was born Dorothy Kitchen and is sometimes credited by this name in films. She appeared in twenty nine films, generally B film westerns. In 1931 she appeared in one of the earliest Spanish-language sound films ""Hollywood, City of Dreams"" as a glamorous movie star who is the idol of the film's hero José Bohr. Drexel is presented as one of the leading stars of Hollywood, rather than the B Movie leading lady she"
"Ali Landry Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an American actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1996. She played Rita Lefleur on the UPN sitcom ""Eve"" and was the Doritos Girl in a 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by ""People"" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world. Landry was named after Ali MacGraw after her mother had seen the 1970 film ""Love Story"". Landry grew up in Cecilia, Louisiana, the daughter of Renella (Ray) and Gene Allen Landry. Landry is of French (Cajun) descent. She attended"
"Polly Holliday Polly Dean Holliday (born July 2, 1937) is an American actress who has appeared on stage, television and in film. She is best known for her portrayal of sassy waitress Florence Jean ""Flo"" Castleberry on the 1970s sitcom ""Alice"", which she reprised in its short-lived spin-off, ""Flo"". Her character's tagline of ""Kiss my grits!"" remains perhaps the most memorable line associated with the series ""Alice"". Holliday was born in Jasper, Alabama, the daughter of Ernest Sullivan Holliday, a truck driver and Velma Mabell Holliday (née Cain). She grew up in Childersburg and Sylacauga, where her brother Doyle's boyhood"
"Faye Emerson Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress and television interviewer known as ""The First Lady of Television."" Beginning in 1941, she acted in many Warner Bros. films. In 1944, she played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's former lover in ""The Mask of Dimitrios"". From 1944 to 1950, she was the third wife of Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Emerson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Her star is located at"
"Lauren Bacall on screen and stage American actress Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) had an extensive career in films, television shows, and plays. She was one of the leading ladies during the Golden Age of Hollywood along with actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. Bacall started her career as a teenage fashion model when she appeared on the cover of ""Harper's Bazaar"" and was discovered by Howard Hawks' wife Nancy. As she naturally had a high-pitched and nasal voice, she received lessons to help deepen it and was required to shout verses by Shakespeare for hours every day as part"
"Amanda Lear Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp; born 18 June or 18 November 1939, 1946, 1948 or 1950) is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. Lear studied art in Paris and at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on to model for Paco Rabanne and Ossie Clark, among others. Around that time she met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend and muse for the next 15 years. Lear first came into the public"
"three children, Anna, a director of commercials; Georgina, a full-time hands-on mom; and Christian, a student at Xavier School. Barbara Perez Barbara Pérez is a Filipina actress in movies and television in the Philippines. She was tagged as the Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines due to her doe eyes, pixie face, swan-like neck and 19-inch waistline. She did No Man Is An Island, a Hollywood movie in 1962, with Jeffrey Hunter. Pérez appeared in more than 75 movies and television shows since 1956. Perez did films included ""Pagdating Ng Takip-Silim"" (1956), ""Chabacano"" (1956), ""Pampanguena"" (1956), ""Gigolo"" (1956), ""Ate Barbara"" (1957),"
"in the 1929 film. In her will, del Río stipulated that all her artworks were donated to the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature of Mexico, for display in various museums in Mexico City, including the National Museum of Art, the Museum of Art Carillo Gil and the Home-Studio of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Del Río was the first Mexican actress to succeed in Hollywood. The others have been Lupe Velez, Katy Jurado, and in recent years Salma Hayek and Lupita Nyong'o. Her career had a great impact on the trajectories of the Latinas in Hollywood who followed"
"Nancy Drexel Nancy Drexel (April 6, 1910 – November 19, 1989) was an American film actress of the late silent and early sound era. She was born Dorothy Kitchen and is sometimes credited by this name in films. She appeared in twenty nine films, generally B film westerns. In 1931 she appeared in one of the earliest Spanish-language sound films ""Hollywood, City of Dreams"" as a glamorous movie star who is the idol of the film's hero José Bohr. Drexel is presented as one of the leading stars of Hollywood, rather than the B Movie leading lady she was in"
"Los Angeles with Grahame, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast, with Edwin Sherin directing. Over time Grahame became increasingly concerned with her physical appearance; she particularly felt her upper lip was too thin and had ridges that were too deep. She began stuffing cotton or tissue under it, which she felt gave her a sexier look. Several co-stars discovered this during kissing scenes. In the mid-1940s, Grahame began undergoing small cosmetic procedures on her lips and face. According to her niece, Vicky Mitchum, Grahame's obsession with"
"beauty"", with her full lips remaining the most imitated celebrity feature well into the 2010s. After a 2011 repeat survey by ""Allure"" found that Jolie most represented the American beauty ideal, compared to model Christie Brinkley in 1991, writer Elizabeth Angell credited society with having ""branched out beyond the Barbie-doll ideal and embraced something quite different"". In 2013, Jeffrey Kluger of ""Time"" agreed that Jolie has for many years symbolized the feminine ideal, and opined that her frank discussion of her double mastectomy redefined beauty. Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie ( ; born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4, 1975) is an"
"her comedic persona—an unkempt wig, wrist-length gloves, cloth-covered ankle boots, and a bejeweled cigarette holder. Phyillis Diller is referenced on Glee, Season 5, episode 6 when Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch, as the single ""show business legend(s) born and bred right here in Lima."" Phyllis Diller Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh. Diller was a groundbreaking stand-up comic—one of the first female comics"
"much footage as possible. Edie Adams Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke, April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American comedienne, actress, singer and businesswoman. She was an Emmy Award and Tony Award winner. Adams was well known for her impersonations of sexy stars on stage and television, especially Marilyn Monroe. She was the wife and frequent television partner of Ernie Kovacs until his death in a 1962 car accident. After Kovacs' death, Adams founded two beauty businesses: Edie Adams Cosmetics and Edie Adams Cut 'n' Curl. Adams was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, the only daughter of Sheldon"
"Phyllis Diller Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh. Diller was a groundbreaking stand-up comic—one of the first female comics to become a household name in the U.S. She paved the way for Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others, who credit her influence. Diller had a large gay following and is considered a gay icon. She was also one of the first"
"Face of God). She appeared in 124 films from 1933 to 1986. One of her most prominent roles in her film career is that of ""Paz"" in the popular 1940 Cantinflas film ""Ahí está el detalle"". In the film, she received the sixth billing, after her other co-stars. She also appeared in supporting roles with actor Joaquín Pardavé in the Lebanese character comedies ""El baisano Jalil"" (1942) and ""El barchante Neguib"" (1946). Dolores Camarillo Dolores Camarillo (March 31, 1910 – February 8, 1988) was a Mexican character actress of film, television, and theater. She also was a makeup artist for"
"Director of Selznick International Pictures. She worked closely with Selznick's top actresses, such as Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, Dorothy McGuire, and Joan Fontaine. Colby later hosted the television program ""The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse"" in 1954. Colby also invented a chair convertible to inclined bed (U.S. patent 2690209), which was filed in 1952 and issued in 1954. She was a devout Roman Catholic. She died of lung disease, aged 77. Anita Colby Anita Colby (August 5, 1914 – March 27, 1992) was an actress and model. Colby was born Anita Counihan, the daughter of the cartoonist, Bud Counihan, a legendary"
"Sally Starr (TV hostess) Sally Starr (January 25, 1923 – January 27, 2013) was a prominent 1950s celebrity television personality. Using a cowgirl persona, she appealed to local TV audiences of several generations of children through American radio, Broadway stage, movies and as a recording artist for over 60 years. Fans remained loyal in the Philadelphia metropolitan area (referred to locally as the Delaware Valley), and embraced her cowgirl personality as part of their own family identity, and sometimes referred to her as ""Aunt Sally"". Her numerous personal appearances at events were an attraction for both children and adults. She"